Thomas Mann Quote Tapestries

a perpetually relevant quote by German author Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann portrait and quote: “Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”

Thomas Mann portrait and quote: “Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.”

a perpetually relevant quote by German authorThomas Mann

Thomas Mann portrait and quote: Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact — it is silence which isolates.

Thomas Mann portrait and quote: Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state

Thomas Mann portrait and quote: What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!

Thomas Mann portrait and quote: A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Thomas Mann portrait and quote: Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!

Thomas Mann portrait and quote: Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

Thomas Mann portrait and quote: It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Thomas Mann portrait and quote: It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Thomas Mann portrait and quote: No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

Thomas Mann portrait and quote: No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.